Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight programmers

Windows Phone 7 For Silverlight programmers: "

Jesse Liberty is publishing a mini-series on the web about Windows Phone 7 programming for Silverlight programmers. The first in the series is now available.

This is the first in a series of mini-tutorials on Windows Phone 7 Programming for Silverlight Programmers.

Goals:

• Rapid introduction to Win Phone 7 for experienced Silverlight Programmers


• Design and implementation of WP7 Silverlight HVP

Audience: Silverlight Programmers who want to learn to program the new Windows Phone 7. Once the fundamentals are covered, the target audience will narrow to Silverlight Programmers who wish to participate in the Silverlight HVP Phone project

Getting Started

There are two paths to installing what you need

• Download the Phone Developer Tools (which include Visual Studio Express)


• Or… Download Visual Studio and the Silverlight Developer tools, and then install the Windows Developer tools

The First Three Applications

This tutorial will demonstrate how to create a simple Win7Phone application. The follow on will extend that application to create a second page, consisting of a simple form whose text fields are data bound.

The third tutorial, building on an application started by Tim Heuer, will demonstrate how to bind to live data through a web service, how to implement the panorama view and how to integrate both animation and live Bing maps.

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